The Reserve Bank of India is ‘looking into’ several requests that it has received from mobile wallet companies for an extension of the deadline for the implementation of know your customer (KYC) norms for their users beyond December 31.

The Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) has written to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to extend the deadline for Aadhaar-based re-verification of existing SIMs through a one-time password, by a month.

The Ferozepur railway division has started free wi-fi facility at Ludhiana railway station. According to a railway official, the facility came into operation from January 28.Jaison Singh from Alamgir village daily commutes to Amritsar.

After PSU banks, the government is likely to infuse capital in two chronically ill telecom PSUs BSNL and MTNL, and the Union Cabinet is likely to take a decision on 4G spectrum allocation to them by the third week of the current month after DoT places the note before it for consideration.

At a high-level meeting at the PMO late Tuesday, it was also decided that the two telcos will frame a Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) to reduce their employee strength, which will be followed by a reduction in the retirement age to 58.